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1. Yes. 2. One does not prove it, one sees it.

Like everyone else, I have no idea about the answer to your question, but feel a fatuous comment is in order. I used to use coffeecup (free version) w...

Normally, I tend to favour workers rights, but I think when you sell your labour carrying dinners to diners, or whatever, you are selling your freedom...

Talking of arrogance, both sheer and wooly... In the gospel of the Egg-man it is sung: "I am he as you are he as you are me And we are all together Se...

Ah, so it's insight that makes one blind.

We have eyes, therefore we cannot see; we have minds, therefore we cannot understand; we have fingers therefore we cannot touch. See also Stove's Gem.

Welcome home. :)

I generally tolerate all the stuff I can't do anything about, and all the stuff I can't be arsed to do anything about. Since I am extremely lazy and e...

I'd say the key to being genuine is to make no effort to be genuine or not to be genuine. There is something inauthentic about the whole approach - as...

Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu - chapter 76 A man is born gentle and weak. At his death he is hard and stiff. Green plants are tender and filled with sap. At ...

My song is love unknown. My song is love unknown, my Savior's love to me, love to the loveless shown that they might lovely be. O who am I that for my...

I agree, this happens. And in such a case one is performing, and conforming to the image. So it is the image one is attached to, and the image that is...

This is Utopia, nor am I out of it.

For sure, anger is very real; one has only to look at the world. I should emphasise that I am not suggesting in this thread that one should let it all...

I wonder if we are saying the same thing or not. I suppose compassion comes from empathy, whereas attachment comes from self image. So are you saying ...

Anything I post is but a mere manifestation of my limited mind. So do not expect either a definition or an answer. But perhaps in the silence that fol...

Maybe. 'Fictional' is probably misleading, but my suggestion is that the situation is more like putting a broken cast on a broken leg, which doesn't d...

I agree with your intuition. Perhaps I should emphasise the role of time in this. Suppose you say something that hurts me, intentionally or not. So fi...

That's a reasonable generalisation, but it's a bit vague. Dung beetles don't promote the growth or flourishing of dung. I seem to recollect a species ...

I think in order to identify with the way one feels, one has first to dissociate from it. I don't know if that is clear? I am not depressing, but I ha...

Well dung is good for dung beetles and rose growers, affection is good for humans.

I suggest that 'the good' a relational term. Like 'proximity'. It would be a mistake to look for a property of proximity either in oneself or in certa...

I was wondering when this would become an explicit question. It has been given answers in various comments that I have avoided responding to, and has ...

Ah, I see what you are saying now. Yes, the whole thread is about how one feeling can mask another. We Brits are famous for our stiff upper lips, and ...

Well the person I'm mostly interested in analysing is myself. Understanding my own understanding is just what I am interested in. Sometimes it looks l...

I agree with your definition of emotion, but it seems to entail that a tempered judge is not an emotionless judge. You seem to be clear enough on the ...

I'm not so sure jealousy is simpler. One could say that jealousy is the motivator of competition, and competition is the motivator of excellence. It s...

There is a great danger in this though, that it gives comfort to the reluctant torturer. "I don't really want to hurt you, I'm just thinking of all th...

Ken Loach interview. “Angry? Mmmmmmm,” Loach says so quietly it barely registers. He talks about the people he and his regular writer Paul Laverty met...

Leonard Cohen on Bob Dylan's nobel award: “To me, it's like pinning a medal on Mount Everest for being the highest mountain.”

Here's the thing; when you say that anger is worse, or more disturbing, you are naming the (tertiary) feeling that you have about the feeling of anger...

Actually I think one cannot assume that. Rather one has to assume that we are talking about the same emotions that folks can have more or less of. Oth...

This is rather difficult. There are no unexpressed emotions - but sometimes one bites one's tongue. I think I would say that there are indeed unexpres...

Yes, I'm not even hoping to capture the complexity of emotional life in a few easy concepts. For sure there is what I can call 'emotional weather' wit...

I'm not sure if I'm following you, but certainly I agree that anger is felt and thought of as a strength, and that is how it functions, in the psyche,...

Hmm. I need to be a linguistic dictator here. Anger is an emotion, and so an internal motivation. The expression of anger we can call violence to dist...

I'll entertain, if you care to explain.

Your homework for tonight: Compare and contrast Dylan's The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll and Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath.

Well it is my own terminology, and there is a certain inevitable arbitrariness but it ties in closely with this from a review you referenced: "... (Nu...

I'm stealing this to start a new thread, hopefully out of the eye and interest of the extremists.

It's not that interesting really. No more interesting than that homosexuals can use words like 'faggot' and 'queer' without sounding homophobic, where...

Well just to quote from one article and not bothering to look very carefully: 'This is a case of theatrical bigotry. It was pre-planned by you as you ...

I'm not about to take your word for any of this, particularly as it is incoherent. And there we have it. Political correctness consists in not kicking...

Show me a legal case, or admit that your complaint is simply that folks call you names when you call them names. Mr Corbyn has to defend himself again...

What countries? Being called a hate criminal is of course totally legitimate, unless you are one of the PC brigade. But at least in the UK a hate crim...

So be it, Amen. Not being allowed to call folks homophobes, racists, misogynists and bigots would be political correctness gone mental health issue.

Oh shit, my life has been wasted and I never even knew.

I'm very lost. I'm 64, graduated in philosophy (and psychology) with honors a deal of years ago, and have been working dead-end jobs since. I don't th...

That is a strand of Buddhism, but it makes no sense to me, that the impure is the agent of purity. I prefer the Taoist notion that it is inaction that...

Ah the good old problem of evil. We see it is not resolved in this world, but surely it must be in the next? Here is the hard line theology: there is ...